SO1E04- Meet Casey Jones

It's been a week since we blew up Stocktronics and a week since we've been up to the surface and I was going nuts. I was leaning against one of the pillars next to the training area, reading. Yes, I was so bored I was reading. Mikey and Raph were fighting each other not that far from me and Mikey threw a spin kick causing Raph to fall into a pile of boxes, which Don was meaning to move into his lab.

"Ha! Nice fall Raphael! Just come on back if you want some more of that!" Mikey said, trash-talking Raph. Raph stood up from the pile of boxes with a box still on his head. He grabs the box and yanked it off his head.

"You've had it Mikey!" Raph said pointing a finger at him. Mikey spit on his fist and rubbed it on his shell.

"Bro I know you've got to go!" Raph said jumping up trying to punch Mikey. But Mikey easily dodged it.

"Hmm good reverse punch!" Mikey said dodging more blows. "Nice round house kick to Raph!"

I put down my book and swung my legs over the ledge to watch them fight. Master Splinter and Leo came out of Master Splinters room and watched the fight as well. Mikey flipped over Raph missing yet another punch.

"But you're just a little to slow!" Mikey said missing a punch and slapping Raph across the face, causing Raph to run into the ledge next to me.

"Actually much too slow!" Mikey said.

I laughed a little at Mikey's joke, then Raph looked up at me quick and turned back to Mikey. He ran at Mikey and punched him square in the face, causing him to fly back and hit the wall. Raph didn't let him have time to rest, he ran at him again. But Mikey was quick to get back on his feet and dodge his on coming kicks and punches, Raph looked like he had a new burst of energy. Leo and Master Splinter looked at them worried. I know Raph was a complete hot head, but if anyone could take it, it was Mikey.

"You think you're better than me!" Raph said as Mikey flipped backwards to get out of Raphs way.

"Do you!" Raph shouted charging at him again. Mikey grabbed Raphs hands and they locked on to them. Raph tried to push Mikey but Mikey pushed back.

"No, you're just too cocky Raph!" And as Mikey was saying that he quickly let go of Raph causing him to fall forward and flip onto a near by table, crushing it.

"Winner and still champion Michelangelo!" Mikey said walking off. But when Mikey turned around Raph grabbed a near by lead pipe. I let out a small gasp.

"No! NO! You...YOU!" Raph said. I could hear the anger in him build up in each word. I knew this was going to end bad. I was moving before anyone else could. Raph jumped at Mikey.

"Raph, DON"T!" I shouted and jumped up and tackled Raph in mid flight. We rolled on top of each other until Raph had me pinned down. Raph gave me a deep growl and rose up the lead pipe. His eye's were filled with rage and even looked red a little around the edges. I couldn't move my arms or legs. I closed my eyes waiting for the blow.

"Raphael! Have you lost your mind!" I heard Leo say. I looked up and saw that Leo was holding back Raphs arm that had the lead pipe. Then Don came over.

"Are you okay Kim! What were you thinking Raph!" Don said helping me up. Raph still kneeled on the floor confused. It looked like he blinked out of trance. He was breathing heavily and still had a firm grip on the pipe.

"I...Leo...Kim, I!" Raph said having trouble with his words. He put his hand on his head trying to think.

"Ahh, my son. So angry. Rage is a monster that will destroy you from within. Raphael a true warrior finds balance, in all things." Master Splinter said putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Master Splinter...I...I...I gotta get some air!" Raph said running out of the lair. Mikey tried to follow him but Master Splinter held him back.

"He needs time." Was all Master Splinter said. They all left to do other things but I stood where I was. I looked around and made sure no one was looking and I ran out after Raph, grabbing my bow on the way out. I had to make sure he wasn't going to do anything stupid. I ran down the tunnel and listened. I could hear footsteps receding down the tunnel to my left. I ran down the tunnel and found a manhole cover that was ajar. I went up the ladder and lifted up the manhole cover, which was heavier than I thought. There was an abandon building just outside the manhole and I could hear footsteps running up the stairs. I took the fire escape up. I stayed hidden on the fire escape and waited. Then Raph bursted out onto the roof. He ran to the edge of the roof.

"What is wrong with me!" Raph shouted letting his anger out. He stood there for a minute just breathing heavily. Then he sprinted towards me. I ducked quickly then I saw something jump over my head. Raph started to jump the roofs making his way down the street. Luckily he didn't see me and I followed after him. He jumped roof after roof and I was close behind, making sure to stay in the shadows, in case he ever cared to look behind him. Then he stopped again. I slipped down on the fire escape, to watch him. He crouched down to look at something on the street, what he was looking at, I couldn't tell. It wasn't long before he moved again. He ran to the other side of the roof and jumped down the fire escape on the other side of the building. I jumped up on the roof and went over to the other side. I lay down, and crawled to the edge of the roof to peer down over the side. Raph sat on the rail of the fire escape looking down into an ally. There was a woman with red hair being harassed by a group of purple dragons, trying to get her purse.

"Hand over the purse sweet thing and we promise not to hurt you...to much." I heard a purple dragon say.

"Man, these guys pick the wrong night to tick me off." Raph said to himself.

"Purple Dragons! Come out and play!" A voice said. I looked down the alley and saw there was a guy with a mask and hockey stick, banging on a trash lid. The guy had long black hair and a red tank top on. He had bandages around his arms and a whole bag of other sports stuff on his back.

"It's that wacko in the hockey mask! Let's get him!" A purple dragon said, who had orange hair and some sunglasses. They all ran at the Hockey mask guy.

"Looks like this is going to be good." I heard Raph said. I rolled my eyes. The only other thing Raph likes more than fighting is watching other people fight. One of the purple dragons threw a punch at the Hockey mask guy, but he dodged the punch and slammed him in the head with the trash can lid. He hit the other two purple dragons with his hockey stick.

"No mercy, scum! I'm putting you punks out of business...permanently!" The guy said raising his hockey stick.

"That guys out of control!" Raph said jumping down.

"Like you have room to talk." I mumbled sarcastically. Raph grabbed the guys arm, stopping him from hitting the purple dragon.

"Hey!" The masked guy shouted out in surprise.

"Easy there cowboy, they're down! You did good! Now take it easy!" Raph said letting go of the guy's arm.

"I'm out of here! Let's go!" The purple dragon said running down the alley.

"Ah man there getting away!" The masked guy said. "Stay out of my business freak!" The guy said punching Raph in the face. I clenched my hands. I can't believe he called him freak! He was just trying to help him!

"Whoa their Kim, calm down." I said to myself, rubbing my head. I'm going to get as bad as Raph.

The masked guy ran down the street saying,

"You can run purple dragons, but you can't hide from Casey Jones!" He ran after the purple dragons. Raph walked over to the purse that was on the ground and went over to the lady that was still standing there in shock.

"Sorry about all this. Here's your purse mam." Raph said handing the lady her purse.

"Keep away from me you lizard thing! Keep away!" The lady said snatching her purse from Raph. She ran back down the alley.

What was her problem? He helped her out, even if he was a big green mutant turtle. I thought.

But I didn't have time to rant on, soon Raph was moving again and I jumped the roofs trying to catch up to him. He went down the alley a little ways and peered around the corner. I jumped on the next roof looking down the alley Raph was looking at. That Casey Jones guy was beating the crud out of the purple dragons, giving them hit after hit. I went down the fire escape to get a better look.

"You've stolen your last purse, you bastards!" Casey said. Then Raph ran out from the corner of the building and charged at the masked guy. He jumped and knocked the guy over.

"I told you to cool it pal!" Raph said as the purple dragons ran down the alley.

"Ya, and I told you to stay out of my way! But since your ears don't seem to be working," The guy swung at Raph with his hockey stick. "I'm going to have to get my point across a whole other way."

"Listen, I'm trying to tell you something here, but you're really working on my last nerve!" Raph said. This guy was working on my last nerve to. To took all I had to not jump down there and punch that guy's lights out.

"Is that right?" The guy said swinging his hockey stick at him again.

"Look, I think you're trying to do the right thing, but you're going about it all wrong!" Raph said trying to talk some sense into this guy.

"You gotta get in control of yourself." Raph said.

"Look freak boy, if you're protecting these purple dragon scum, then you're in my way, and you're going down too!" He said bring his hockey stick down, trying to hit Raph in the head, but Raph jumped out of his way.

"Hockey seasons over." Raph said, finally at his last straw. He jumped up and kicked the hockey stick out of the guy's hands.

"Yea? Well, baseball's in season, and so are you, you freaky freaking weirdo! Batter up!" The masked guy said taking out two baseball bats from his duffel bag. I face palmed my forehead, this guy is so lame, he's going to get pummeled.

"Fine! Play ball!" Raph said taking out his sai's. They circled a minute, then final Raph charged at him, he jumped over him trying to hit at his baseball bats, but the masked guy swung at him almost hitting Raphs shell. When Raph landed the masked guy charged at Raph, but Raph stopped him by holding his baseball bat with his sai.

"Hey, you gotta listen to me! You're angry! I can understand that believe me! But what if you grab the wrong guy? What if you go too far? Get yourself in real trouble!" Raph said trying to talk to him, but the masked guy hit Raph sending him flying at the wall.

"I got my reasons for doing what I do and they got nothing to do with you!" The guy said raising up his bats. This was getting way out of hand. I jumped down from the fire escape and landed on top of the masked guy making him fall flat on the ground.

"Leave him alone!" I said still on his back.

"Kim! What are you doing here?" Raphael asked sounding pissed and surprised.

"Making sure you don't do anything stupid...without me." I said smiling. The guy started moving under me, so I quickly got off.

"Great now there's two of ya, the more the merrier." The guy said standing up and swung the bat at us, but we dodged it.

"If you want to fight, come on let's fight!" I said taking out my bow.

"No Kim, this guy is nuts. He can really hurt you." Raph said trying to talk me out of it.

"You better listen to the lizard man, this isn't for a little girl." The masked guy said!"

I suddenly charged at the guy and knocked out one of the baseball bats from his hand, with my bow, and hit him across the face.

"How's that for a little girl?" I said with a smirk. But the masked guy was quick to recover he swung the bat trying to hit me, but Raph jumped in front of it.

"Raph!" I said as he flew back into some trashcans, making a loud bang. But I had no time to see if he was ok. The masked guy came charging at me and I jumped over him and hit him in the back, but then he turned around quickly and slammed me in the stomach with his bat. I fell back at the impact, hitting the concrete. I clenched my stomach, it hurt like hell. He was about to hit me again, but then Raph came charging at him and kicked him in the stomach making him hit the wall. When the guy was down, Raph went over to him and took off the hockey mask. At first the guy was surprised but then he looked pissed.

"What...What am I doing? Were on the same side, we shouldn't be fighting." Raph said realizing what he was doing. "We both need to just get ahold of ourselves take it easy. Chill." Raph said helping the guy up.

"You know you're right, you should me the error of my ways. Not!" The guy said, then he held up a golf club. "FOUR!" Then he hit Raph square in the jaw, sending him back again, hitting another group of trash cans. The guy was laughing like a maniac.

"I can't believe you fell for that!" Then he ran down the alley. I got up and ran after him ignoring the pain in my stomach and Raph was close behind me. We ran into a dead end.

"He's around here somewhere." Raph said. Then a light came on, almost blinding us. There was a motorcycle and the masked guy was on it, heading straight for us! I jumped to the side, but something tripped up Raph when the bike went by.

"I got more where that came from freak boy!" The masked guy said, mainly to Raph. "You want a rematch? Check me out Friday night, central park! Adios losers!" Then the masked guy speed away on his bike.

"Come back here!" Raph said staggering to stand up. But he was already gone.

"Shit." He muttered. But then he quickly turned to me.

"Kim, what were you thinking!" He said pissed off.

"Really? This is the kind of thanks I get for saving your shell?" I said, crossing my arms. Raph didn't say anything.

"Are you ok?" He asked after a moment of awkward silence. "I saw him hit ya with the bat."

"Ya I'm fine, you don't have to worry, he hit you way more then me." I said with a grin.

"Ya whatever." He said rolling his eyes. "Let's just get back to the lair."

I jogged to catch up to him and matched his pace.

"I still can't believe you fell for that." I said smiling.

"Shut up." He said.

After jumping on the roofs and running through the tunnels, we finally got back to the lair.

"I don't know who could have built this thing, but if were going to use it we're going to need safety precautions and extra security up in the warehouse." We heard Leo saying as we got in the lair.

"Piece of pie." Don said, doing those sort of things all the time.

"Mmm piece of pizza pie!" Mikey said. Then they all turned to see me and Raph come in.

"Welcome home Raph! And Kim? What were you doing topside?" Mikey asked confused.

"Making sure he didn't do anything stupid." I said motion to Raph.

"Man, you guys look like you got the shells kicked out of you!" Mikey said seeing our bruises.

"Ya it's a long story, but first I wanted to apologize. Mikey, I'm sorry I got out of control earlier and I almost hurt Kim. Guys I'm really sorry." Raph said true fully.

"Hey, don't sweat it bro!" Mikey said putting a hand around Raphs shoulder.

"Alright, who are you and what have you done with our brother, Raphael?" Leo said joking.

"Let's just say I had a chance to think about the way I've been acting. I'll fill you in over dinner." Raph said.

"Dinner! Now you're talking my language!" Mikey said.

"What language is that Mikey?" Raph said punching him on the shoulder. "Nitwit?"

"Haha, listen to the funny mutant." Mikey said smacking him lightly behind the head.

Donatello had showed me the new elevator that was found in our lair. To be honest, I didn't know what to make of it. There was no sign of any electricity or anything and we couldn't hammer into the thick walls. Micky was already making plans for the garage and was telling me over dinner.

"I'm telling ya Kim! A vehicle would be awesome! We could go to all our ninja gigs in style!" He said.

"Mikey, first of all who knows how long that will take, second of all who knows how long it will last, with you behind the wheel!" I said.

"Oh come on Kim! You love doing vehicles and stuff. Besides Donny won't do it." Mikey said trying to convince me.

"Mikey I-" I was cut off when Mikey started to give me his puppy dog eyes.

"No! Stop that!" I said covering up my eyes. "I'm not doing it!"

Then Mikey grabbed my hands and forced me to look at his eyes, which looked like they got even ten times bigger.

"Agh! Fine I'll see what I can do." I said in defeat. Mikey smiled.

"All right! You're the best Kim!" Mikey said giving me a hug.

Raphael was still thinking of the guy he fought with. The guy seemed to be doing the right thing but he didn't know how to control his temper. Just like Raph. I think that's why Raph cared about this guy so much, he wanted to help him get over his anger. Later that night, Raph was in the living room with the lights off, watching the clock, which read 10:32.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Just think about that vigilante guy. I need to get back out there what if he hurt someone? Someone innocent." He said shaking his head, probably remembering Mikey. He stood up.

"I'm going back out." He said heading for the door.

"I'm coming with you." I said.

"We're all coming with you." A voice said. I turned around and saw Leo and the other guys.

"We're going to help you set this right." Donatello said.

"What are we wanting for then? Let's move out turtles!" Mikey said.

"Mikey, don't say that ever again." Raphael said as we walked towards the door.

"Wait guys, shouldn't we tell Master splinter?" Leo asked.

"And have him stop us from going topside? We have to find that vigilante whack bag and stop 'im. For his own good. He's not a bad guy, just a little misguided." Raph said. Suddenly the lights came on, with Master Splinter standing by the power box. He cleared his throat.

"Busted!" Mikey said.

"How many times have I told you not to sneak up to the surface?" Master Splinter scolded.

"This month?" Mikey asked.

"512, actually." Donatello said, answering the question.

"It is dangerous for you to go about openly in the world, above." Master splinter continued. "You cannot simply walk amongst the humans. They will not accept who or what you are. It is as the Great Sage and warrior Kenji Hashimoto once said 'Why walk? When you can ride?'"

"Come again?" Raph asked confused. Then Master Splinter walked us to the elevator.

"Take the truck." Master Splinter said. We got into the elevator and headed up to the shop. Inside the garage the armored truck we stole from the purple dragons, was waiting.

"Alright we got until Friday night to make this bad boy turtle ready." Raph said.

"'Turtle ready'? Really Raph?" I said making fun of him.

"Let's get to work!" Don said heading over to his workbench. We started to get old scraps of metal to put on the armored car. We worked for two long hours, and I saw we had a lot of leftover parts. Suddenly I got an idea.

"What are you doing?" Don asked as I headed over to the spare parts.

"I'm just going to work on a little side project." I said gathering some parts.

"And what's that?" Don asked curious.

"It's a surprise." I said with a grin.

Two days later we finally got finished with the vehicle and I got done with my little side project. We all stepped back from the armored car and admired our handy work.

"Now this is a ride!" Raph said indicating to the car. The armored car was now green, had new wheels, lots of lights, and totally different interior.

"You ain't seen nothing yet! Let's roll!" Don said running to the car and all the guys following.

"Seriously guys, what's with the cheesy catch phrases?" I asked rolling my eyes.

"I like it! It makes you feel like you're in a comic book!" Mikey said grinning. I followed after the guys into the car. We all got into our seats and put on our seatbelts. I sat in between Leo and Raph, while Mikey sat up in the front with Donatello. Don started up the truck and we were soon zooming out into the street.

"We better get going guys. Who knows how long that guy will wait." I said.

"You got it Kim." Don said, then he turned down the street toward central park. The park was dark and there were only a few people around.

"And on your left is Central Park! 843 acres of landscape beauty in the center of the city." Don said, sounding like a tour guide.

"Wait there he is!" Raph said looking out his window. I looked around Raph and saw the bozo with the hockey mask on his motorcycle.

"Floor it Don, keep up with him!" Raph said.

"Raph wait, I have a better idea." I said unbuckling my seat belt and heading to the back of the vehicle. I grabbed the tarp that covered up my side project.

"You like them Raph?" I asked with a grin. Under the tarp were two motorcycles. Raphs was red and mine was white. "I thought of calling them Shellcycles."

"There awesome, Kim!" Raph said admiring them.

"Alright, let's go!" I said throwing him a red helmet and I quickly put my white one on. "And whatever you do Raph, don't scratch them! There like my babies." I said. Then I started up the motorcycle and pressed a button that opened up the doors. I wheeled out of the truck with Raph close behind me. I quickly turned my motorcycle around and sped past the truck to catch up to the masked vigilante. Raph was riding beside me and did a wheelie, showing off. I just rolled my eyes and sped up even faster. We turned into the park, which had tons of twists and turns. It wasn't long though until we saw the masked guy up ahead of us. Raph sped up alongside of him.

"Hey hot shot! Slow it down!" He said. But he ignored him and sped up even faster. We turned a corner so fast, that Raph had to do a wheelie to miss a lamp pole. We turned yet another corner and Raph sped up to the guy again.

"Pull over!" He shouted at him getting more irritated. Then I had an idea. I quickly sped up along the other side of the motorcycle.

"He said pull over!" Then I grabbed the other guys break and made him fly off his motorcycle. I drove by him and his motorcycle, that now laid on the ground beside him. I quickly stopped with Raph stopping beside me.

"Well, that's one way to get him to stop." Raph said. "Now it's time for a little shell shock." Raph said with a sly grin. I grinned back at him and he sped off toward the guy and just as the guy got up Raph flew off his motorcycle on top of him. The motorcycle rolled on for a bit, till it finally stopped with a load crash, hitting the ground.

"Dammit Raph! What did I tell you!" I said as I caught up to them. I parked my bike quickly and ran over to Raph. Once I got close, I heard the guy in the hockey mask moan,

"I can't believe I just got my butt kicked by a girl and a giant frog!" Raph took off his helmet.

"Turtle." He corrected.

"Whatever." The masked guy said sitting up a bit.

(I'm just calling him Casey now because this is getting really annoying)

"Look, were no fans of the purple dragons either, we'll help you take them down but we gotta exercise just a little restraint." Raph said helping Casey up.

"Save it! You don't know what you're talking about." Casey said.

"Try me." Raph said. Casey looked at Raph for a second, and then took off his mask. Now that I wasn't trying to beat the crap out of him I got a better look the man, he had long black hair that went just passed his shoulders and light blue eyes.

"Well, a long time ago when I was just a kid some punks were shaking my dad down for protection money. They were purple dragons. We didn't pay, they torched our store!" Casey then turned around and wiped off his eyes. Once you got over the fact that he beat the crap out of us, I actual felt sorry for him.

"So don't tell me how ta deal with purple dragons!" Casey said.

"Just be careful, your anger can take you down, make you act just like them!" Raph said, giving the vigilante advice. "My...father once told me 'A true warrior, finds balance in all things.'"

"Balance huh?" Casey said questionably.

"Well, you know, as much balance as group of hotheads whack bags like us can manage." Raph said crossing his arms, grinning. Casey frowned at him.

"Me? You guys are the only whack bags around here, doc." Casey said pointing at us.

"Hey, we're not half as crazy as you." Raph said, punching the guy lightly.

"Sorry, but for a little green dude and a ninja girl, you guys are totally nuts." Casey said punching Raph back.

"Well we're not the ones running around in hockey masks." I said crossing my arms.

"I've got to protect my good looks." Casey said indicating to his face. "I'm saving this face for Hollywood."

"Well isn't this romantic?" A voice said. All three of us turned around to find a group of purple dragons had surrounded us. One guy with a goatee and a mohawk came up to us. He carried a lead pipe and had a tattoo of a dragon on his face.

"So, when you said 'I would go too far and get myself into trouble', did ya meant something like this?" Casey asked.

"Something like it." Raph said, dropping the helmet and putting up his fists. Then a strange noise was coming from down the road.

"Do you guys here that?" I asked. Suddenly the armored truck that we fixed up, came down the street, driving straight towards us. The purple dragons saw it and started to shout. The vehicle came to a screeching halt next to us. Then the other guys came out, and drew out their weapons.

"Friends of yours?" Casey asked us.

"Brothers actually." Raph said as the other guys stood by us.

"I can see the family resemblance." He said, and then he looked over at me. "But how does she fit in?"

"I was adopted." I said with a grin and pulled out my bow.

"And I'm the pretty one!" Mikey said. Then the purple dragons started to advance on us and Raph and Casey pulled out their weapons. I flipped over the on coming group to get them to split apart. One purple dragon swung a club at me but I jumped over it and hit him across the face with my bow.

"Hey guys! Check it out I got my split kick right!" I heard Leo say. I looked over and saw Leo with a huge grin.

"I missed it!" Raph said missing a punch and punched the guy in the face. "Let's see it again!"

Two oncoming purple dragons went after Leo, from either side. Then Leo jumped up and kicked both of them at the same time.

"One more time!" Raph said, challenging Leo again.

Two more purple dragon went after Leo and Leo repeated the same move. I gave Leo a whistle.

"Ya! Go Leo!" I said.

"Saw that one!" Raph said grinning.

"We give you a ten!" Casey says, as him and I hold up both hands.

"Hey Raph! Only a six?" Leo asked pretending to be hurt. Then Leo punched a guy that was coming up behind him.

"Bro, it's all I got!" Raph said looking at his hands. Then Raph stopped a punch that was aimed right at his head and kicked the man away. It wasn't very long until all the purple dragons were down on the ground.

"I know I'm going to regret saying this, but I'm glad I meet you crazy man." Raph said.

"Me to green dude." Casey says. "And you know something, I'm starting to see what your all about." He said putting a hand on Raphs shoulder.

"You mean about balance? Self control?" Raph asked.

"Naw, I mean that you're a green mutant freak!" Casey says punching Raph on the shoulder, laughing. "But I like ya!"

Then Raph punched him back, then the guy punched him back and then it just turned into an all out brawl. I rolled my eyes.

"He's your brother." Leo said to Mikey.

"No. no he's your brother." Mikey said pointing back to Leo.

"Absolutely your brother!" Leo said.